Installation Of Java 8 On Redhat/CentOs 7

Java is programming language that produces the software and applications for multiple platforms. When a programmer writes a program then it compiles the code which runs on multiple Operating systems like windows, Linux etc. Java runs on millions devices like mobile,software, applications , tablet etc.

Features of Java :

Object oriented

Simple

Secured

Robust

Dynamic

In This Article , We’re going to install java version 8 on redhat with the help of rpm package downloaded from Oracle official sites

Package Name jdk-8u171-linux-x64.rpm And version is jdk1.8.0_171

Step 1 : Install java rpm

rpm -ivh jdk-8u171-linux-x64.rpm

Or from Yum repository

Yum install java* -y

Step 2 : Check what are the dependencies are installed along with this packages

rpm –qa java*

Go the location where java will be installed

ls /usr/java/

Step 3 : Check Java Version

Java –version

Now java has been installed on your Server and you can also see there will be JRE package installed as well .